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  • May 14, 2025
    Silas

    No stream

    There's some reporters at the courtroom reporting on the trial

    but this is the best twitter thread I've found (it's long though)

    https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/1922642183938593080

    please keep posting in this thread if you dont mind

  • May 14, 2025
    Silas

    Ventura: To Scott's house. Then I talked with Capricorn Clark, one of Sean's assistants.
    AUSA: Then what?
    Ventura: I went to the house Sean was staying at. He told me he would release videos and hurt Scott and I.
    AUSA: What videos?
    Ventura: Freak off videos. Of me

    Ventura: Sean kicked me in the back, I got a bruise.
    AUSA: Where'd you go?
    Ventura: To my hotel, with the burner phone. The room was torn up. Someone peed all over the floor, pooped in the toilet and didn't flush it. It was gross. This was just before Christmas

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    Ventura: I sent an email to my mom and Capricorn, from my flight to Boston and Connecticut.
    AUSA: What did you write?
    Ventura: That Sean said he would release the tape of me on Christmas and he'd had Scott and I hurt, he said he would be out of the country then

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    Cudi taking burner calls while Cassie tryna avoid abuse is insane bruh wtf

  • May 14, 2025

    AUSA: What are these photographs?
    Ventura: My mother took there in Connecticut, of the bruises on my back.
    AUSA: Were you entirely honest with your mother about the abuse?
    Ventura: No, I said this was the first time.
    AUSA: Did you tell her about the freak offs?
    Ventura: No

  • May 14, 2025

    Ventura: Is it possible to take a break?
    Judge: Yes. Break.

  • May 14, 2025

    We are currently on a break

  • May 14, 2025
    Silas

    AUSA: When you went to a party with your girlfriends, what happened?
    Ventura: I saw executives from BET - then I heard that Sean was there.
    AUSA: What did you do?
    Ventura: I left. I ran out as fast as I could.
    AUSA: Why?
    Ventura: I thought he was angry

    More context and details:

    Cassie Ventura and her friends went to a party at Prince’s house, she testified.

    She said she didn’t tell Combs about it because she thought he wouldn’t let her go.

    Once she arrived at the party, Ventura caught a glimpse of Combs and could tell he was angry, so she said she “ran out as fast as I could.”

    Combs later “burst in the room” at the hotel Ventura was staying at. She said they went into the bedroom, so her friend who was sleeping on the couch wouldn’t hear anything.

    “He beat me up in that room,” she testified. “He was throwing luggage at me, just calling me all kinds of names.”

    Ventura said she had bruises on her face and knots on her head afterward.

  • May 14, 2025
    Silas

    Ventura: I sent an email to my mom and Capricorn, from my flight to Boston and Connecticut.
    AUSA: What did you write?
    Ventura: That Sean said he would release the tape of me on Christmas and he'd had Scott and I hurt, he said he would be out of the country then

    More context and detail:

    The jury is now being shown an email Cassie Ventura sent to her mom and one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ employees in December 2011.

    The email says that Combs had threatened to release “explicit s***tapes” of her, including one on Christmas Day.

    In the email, Ventura also said Combs threatened to “hurt” her and Scott Mescudi — also known as Kid Cudi, who Ventura was dating at the time — but not with his own hands.

    Combs said he’d be out of the country when it happened, she said in the email.

  • May 14, 2025

    I need the Epstein and Freak off list

  • May 14, 2025
    Silas

    USA: In January 2009 did you attend an event in LA with Sean?
    Ventura: Yes
    AUSA: What happened as you left?
    Ventura: I'd been speaking to a producer about music. Sean called me a s***. I hit him in the face. I had been drinking
    AUSA: Did you see any injuries?
    No

    More context and detail:

    Cassie Ventura is describing another time Sean “Diddy” Combs was violent with her. She said that after a party at a Los Angeles club, Combs called he names.

    Ventura said she drunkenly punched him in the face in response, which prompted Combs to beat her, stomping on her face as she lied on the floor of the Escalade.

    When they got to the house, she said she jumped out of the car and tried to run down the street, but Combs’ security eventually caught up with her and brought her into the house.

    Ventura said she finally looked at her face once she was at Combs’ house, and she didn’t recognize herself.

    “Just knots and bleeding, swollen everything. I looked horrible,” she said.

  • May 14, 2025
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    FlyHiii

    So just say that next time and don’t try no Tate low blows, if we fam then you already know what timing i’m on

    And yeah im grumpy af today work been kicking my ass ngl lol

    If you think I'm done razzing you over that questionable sTatement

  • May 14, 2025
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    Valentine

    Cudi taking burner calls while Cassie tryna avoid abuse is insane bruh wtf

    Apparently Cudi even picked her up after she escaped.

    More context and details

    Sean “Diddy” Combs learned Cassie Ventura was dating another man during a “Freak Off” in 2011.

    Ventura recalled Combs lunging at her with a wine opener between his fingers after he read through some emails referencing the man on her phone.

    Ventura said she managed to escape the “Freak Off” in a hotel room to go to another hotel where she had been staying.

    She called the man she’d been dating, Scott Mescudi, also known as rapper Kid Cudi, on a burner phone to come pick her up.

    Ventura said after speaking with one of Combs’ employees, she went over to Combs’ house to talk about things and try to resolve the situation, but he was “irate.”

    “He told me about videos that he had that he was going to release, and that he was going to hurt Scott and I,” she said, adding that the videos he was referring to were of the “Freak Offs.”

  • May 14, 2025
    Silas

    AUSA: Did you feel you could leave the London Hotel?
    Ventura: No. I understood his capability, his access to guns, the threats he made.
    AUSA: When you were taken to the hotel after the assault?
    Ventura: No.

    More context and details:

    But Ventura also said that she didn’t feel like she could leave, and she didn’t think it was “safe” for her to do so.

    “I didn’t have the resources I needed to get out and move, to get out and not have anybody stop me,” she said.

    “I understood Sean’s capabilities, his access to guns, and the threats that he made prior to that.”

    Ventura said her mother read a description of the incident online that didn’t include her name and reached out to see if it was about her.

    “I didn’t tell my mom the truth because I was ashamed, but I also felt like at that point I didn’t know what was going to happen,” she testified. “I didn’t want to put my mother in danger of knowing anything of that magnitude.”

  • May 14, 2025
    Silas

    Apparently Cudi even picked her up after she escaped.

    More context and details

    Sean “Diddy” Combs learned Cassie Ventura was dating another man during a “Freak Off” in 2011.

    Ventura recalled Combs lunging at her with a wine opener between his fingers after he read through some emails referencing the man on her phone.

    Ventura said she managed to escape the “Freak Off” in a hotel room to go to another hotel where she had been staying.

    She called the man she’d been dating, Scott Mescudi, also known as rapper Kid Cudi, on a burner phone to come pick her up.

    Ventura said after speaking with one of Combs’ employees, she went over to Combs’ house to talk about things and try to resolve the situation, but he was “irate.”

    “He told me about videos that he had that he was going to release, and that he was going to hurt Scott and I,” she said, adding that the videos he was referring to were of the “Freak Offs.”

    ohh s*** this the wine opener part of the testimony

    that means Cudi’s car blowing up is coming up shortly wtf

    all i remember from them articles was “a little while later, Cudi’s car blew up in the driveway”

  • May 14, 2025

    We are back

  • May 14, 2025

    3:09 pm - they're back.
    Judge: Ms. Johnson, any estimate?
    AUSA Johnson: An hour more. The goal is to finish the direct and allow the start of cross examination today.
    Judge: Bring the witness and then the jury back in.

  • May 14, 2025

    [Jury entering.]
    AUSA Johnson: Did anyone come to see you in Connecticut?
    Ventura: Scott did, for a few days. I broke it off with him. It was too dangerous
    Defense: Objection!
    Judge: Overruled.
    Ventura: Sean said he would hurt both of us.

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    AUSA: Where did you go after Connecticut?
    Ventura: I went to see Sean, he was in Arizona, his son, college. I told my mother I was going to LA for work.
    AUSA: Did Sean talk about Scott's car?
    Ventura: Sean said he wanted Scott's friends to see Scott's car blown up

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    AUSA: What happened next?
    Ventura: We met, Sean, Scott and me. Scott said, "What about my vehicle?" And Sean said, What vehicle? And that was the end of the meeting.
    AUSA: Put up the photo. What is this?
    Ventura: Me and Sean in Kingston, Jamaica for SoundClash

    @Valentine

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    AUSA: Were you bruised?
    Ventura: Yes.
    AUSA: And this photo - what is it?
    Ventura: Me in Sean's bathroom, Sept 18, 2015. AUSA: What were you doing there?
    Ventura: Recuperating from being beaten up by Sean in Las Vegas.

  • May 14, 2025
    Silas

    AUSA: What happened next?
    Ventura: We met, Sean, Scott and me. Scott said, "What about my vehicle?" And Sean said, What vehicle? And that was the end of the meeting.
    AUSA: Put up the photo. What is this?
    Ventura: Me and Sean in Kingston, Jamaica for SoundClash

    @Valentine

    oh this nigga Diddy a demon

  • May 14, 2025
    Silas

    AUSA: Where did you go after Connecticut?
    Ventura: I went to see Sean, he was in Arizona, his son, college. I told my mother I was going to LA for work.
    AUSA: Did Sean talk about Scott's car?
    Ventura: Sean said he wanted Scott's friends to see Scott's car blown up

    Well there it is

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    Silas

    AUSA: Were you bruised?
    Ventura: Yes.
    AUSA: And this photo - what is it?
    Ventura: Me in Sean's bathroom, Sept 18, 2015. AUSA: What were you doing there?
    Ventura: Recuperating from being beaten up by Sean in Las Vegas.

    Ventura: We were having an after-party in our suite. I talked to a producer and Sean tapped me on the shoulder, called me into our room and beat me. Kicked me as I tried to hide behind the toilet.
    AUSA: What stopped it?
    Ventura: D-Roc and James Cruz came in.

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    Silas

    Ventura: We were having an after-party in our suite. I talked to a producer and Sean tapped me on the shoulder, called me into our room and beat me. Kicked me as I tried to hide behind the toilet.
    AUSA: What stopped it?
    Ventura: D-Roc and James Cruz came in.

    Ventura: It made D-Roc sad.
    AUSA: What are these communications?
    Ventura: From D-Roc to me, he says, Where you at? It's time to ice your face.
    AUSA: Why?
    Ventura: I had just been beaten up by Sean